The mixed platter of salumi with burrata milk cheese from Puglia (HK$198) didn't disappoint because the ingredients were so good. The burrata was particularly delicious because it was as runny...
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21 Feb 2013
Guests are offered a set menu consisting of six or seven tasting courses. The dish we enjoyed the most featured tender slow-cooked Iberico pork cheek. The different flavours were a surprise, and...
17 Jan 2013
The decor is a mix of modern and retro, with carved wooden screens and a chandelier made of porcelain spoons.
17 Jan 2013
Ambience: although the colour scheme of orange chairs and purple tablecloths was not really to our taste, it was a comfortable setting, with tables that were spaced sufficiently far apart.
17 Jan 2013
Better advice from the waitress would have helped us avoid ordering three pasta dishes and a main course which were all tomato sauce-based. A special lasagne dish (HK$160) had overcooked pasta...
The food. The menu is brief, which (to me, anyway) is a good thing - there's a better chance of getting a good dish than if the kitchen spreads itself too thin by offering too much.
The restaurant is decorated with restored, refurbished furnishings such as distressed wood, high, flexible stools with bases made of springs from ships, and displays of old bottles.
Opened a month ago, Carnevino is celebrity chef Mario Batali’s second project in Hong Kong. He launched Lupa earlier this year, located at the same building just two floors down.
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